Raw denim has not been washed before. It can be sanforized or unsanforized. Unsanforized denim will shrink a size or two to fit you. Sanforized denim will not shrink at all except for maybe an inch in the inseam like all jeans (even mall jeans). One washed denim is just raw denim that has been rinsed once before. A lot of times, you can find japanese jeans with unsanforized denim that have been washed once to get the shrinkage out of the way to help ensure that the buyer has a product that will fit the way he wants. It also enables the seller to measure the jeans to make it easier to purchase. The raw nudie jeans are all raw(unwashed) and sanforized so there will be no shrinkage making it pointless to soak them before wearing. All unsanforized denim (a lot of japanese jeans from BiG and self edge) MUST BE WASHED BEFORE WORN. If not, the jeans will not fit right. It's not a matter of it fitting like a size up, but the whole fit needs to be adjusted. There is no benefit to wearing unsanforized jeans raw. The first soak/wash will not ruin any chances of fades/honeycombs/etc...

I got an Edwin (Euro) ED-55 concrete denim on sale for practically nothing . The fit is really nice and the length right now is spot on + 1 inch, so I'm afraid of soaking it. Does anybody know how much these will shrink in length? If it's too much, i'd just use them for work around the house, never wash or soak them and that's it. If shrinkage is low, i'd like to "give them a chance".

brogue requires brogueing (those holes on the edge of the leather panels).

the definitions aren't very precise - for example, an austerity brogue has a cap portion shaped like a wing, but no perforations or medallion.

the term brogue in english shoemaking is using broken down into full brogue, semi-brogue, quarter-brogue, while in the US, those are known as a wingtip, captoe with perforations and mediallion, and captoe with perforations.